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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 82: "I grant thou wert not married to my Muse,..."
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I grant thou wert not married to my Muse,
And therefore mayst without attaint o`erlook
The dedicated words which writers use
Of their fair subject, blessing every book.
Thou art as fair in knowledge as in hue,
Finding thy worth a limit past my praise;
And therefore art enforced to seek anew
Some fresher stamp of the time-bettering days.
And do so, love; yet when they have devis`d,
What strained touches rhetoric can lend,
Thou truly fair, wert truly sympathiz`d
In true plain words, by thy true-telling friend;
And their gross painting might be better us`d
Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abus`d.
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